Aleksandra Durić Milovanović. Dvostruke manjine u Srbiji: O posebnostima u religiji i etnicitetu Rumuna u Vojvodini. Beograd: Balkanološki institut SANU, 2015

Abstract

The book Double minorities in Serbia: the distinctive aspects of the religion and ethnicity of Romanians in Vojvodina (henceforth referred to as Double minorities) is based on contemporary field research among the Romanian neo- Protestant communities in Vojvodina, Serbia’s northern province. Its main goal is to describe and analyse the relationship between ethnic and religious identity among Serbia’s Romanian neo-Protestants by using methods of historiography, ethnographic and anthropological fieldwork and description, as well as methods of discourse analysis. The specificity of these communities is found in their double marginalisation. On the one hand, they are a minority in Serbia because of their Romanian ethnicity, while on the other hand, they are a minority within the Romanian ethnic group on account of their religion, since the vast majority of Romanians are Orthodox. This specificity is theoretically conceptualized within the notion of ’double minorities’, which was adopted as the title of the book.